XCOM 2 - Page 52

On February 11 2016 20:56 deacon.frost wrote:

Right now I don't know whether it's trolling or true as I am at work, but I raged a little over the loading times

On February 11 2016 20:56 deacon.frost wrote:

Right now I don't know whether it's trolling or true as I am at work, but I raged a little over the loading times

On February 11 2016 21:19 daemir wrote:


No it's not a troll, although it sounds like it. I think I mentioned here a few pages or dozen so back. Post mission, let the dropship window be a second or 2, then press capslock once. The animated screen will freeze as it stops rendering and then the loading is done in 1-2 seconds.


Every session the first time you do this, it may take a little more time, but each mission after that is speedload heaven.

On February 11 2016 21:08 Godwrath wrote:

Yeah sure, i am certain than in on a lower difficulty where your tech is cut in half time, it doesn't matter that much what you put in your troops until the very late game. That's why i said on legendary difficulty specifically since you are facing stronger enemies with much less firepower.

About t2 grenades.

- Plasma grenade are jack of all trades. Average damage damage, strip cover and 2 armor.
- Acid strips 4 armor, deals average damage and heavy dot damage. Doesn't destroy cover.
- Fire grenades deals the highest damage (6) on organics plus dot, shreds 2 armor. Doesn't destroy cover. Burn.
- EMP grenades deals the highest damage (6) on robotics plus hacking defense penalty. Ignores armor. Does not destroy cover.
- Gas grenade average damage, strips 2 armor, poison.

And proximite mines, which i haven't used but do 8 damage shred 2 armor.

Then some radius are different, gas has the highest (5) while Fire and EMP (4) are second, and frag/acid third (3).

On February 11 2016 22:30 Kipsate wrote:
I will be wrapping up my current playthrough about tomorrow I think and will be jumping into higher difficulty.

Anyone got any tips? what should I build first apart from GTS? should I expand contacts asap? when do I research psi-stuff, rush weapons?armour?

Here's how AWC work, when you recruit a new soldier with AWC already built, the game rolls a hidden ability with a specific rank requirements for that soldier; or when you built AWC, it rolls for all your existing soldiers; Then this part starts to cause problems, those hidden abilities only get revealed when your soldier lands on EXACTLY the required rank of the hidden ability (this is not the rank of when you get the ability for the original class, just a random number generated by AWC), so if the required rank is lower than the soldier's current rank, tough luck, the soldier has lost his opportunity to get a bonus perk FOREVER, unless you rebuild AWC then it rerolls everyone's perk but it's not ideal either (you need to keep rerolling and building takes time), this fix change the requirement to be exactly on the rank to higher or equal to the required rank, so even if AWC rolls a lower number than the rank, you still get the perk.

On February 12 2016 00:28 Plansix wrote:
You can trigger them by killing pods too. They normally reveal themselves once 50% of the aliens die, and if you kill all of them. I just bring mimic decoys to stall out the pods and ignore the civilians most of the time. The best part about that is they reveal themselves on the enemy turn.